The Root Of Our Faith

Mottel Baleston

Director of Messengers of the New Covenant

Mottel is the Director of the "MESSENGERS OF THE NEW COVENANT" of New Jersey, an organization first established in 1940 to communicate the good news of the arrival of Messiah Yeshua. Messengers carries on a work of sharing Messiah within the Jewish community, calling people to faith in Him, discipling Jewish believers as well as educating Christians concerning the Jewish roots of their faith. In 1997 Mottel also started serving as Messianic Rabbi of Beth Messiah Congregation of Livingston, NJ, a suburb of New York City.

In addition to his other ministries, Mottel continued to serve there thru February 2014 as Associate Messianic Rabbi, Teaching Elder, Worship Team Leader, Hebrew Class Instructor, Small Home Group Leader along with a few other hats. Mottel is a graduate of Northeastern Bible College (now part of The King's College), he also holds the 5 Year Certificate from the Ariel Summer Program of Messianic Jewish Studies and has completed extensive course work at Biblical Theological Seminary of Pennsylvania and Ulpan Beit HaAm (Hebrew Language Institute) of Jerusalem, the eternal capital of Israel.

He is the author of several articles that have appeared in Ariel Magazine, and has taught at Congregations, Churches and conferences in Israel, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and throughout the United States.